#216: Êlektron Nekrópolis (David Lynch, pt. 2)
Added 2024-06-07 09:16:40 +0000 UTCAlchemy, from lead to gold; electricity, from gold to cobalt, lithium, and U-235.
(I might unlock some of these Lynch shows, so tell me in the comments if you wanna share this with people.)
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I’d like to say that your guitar amp series one of my favorites (not to discount the other work), but just the overall mechanics and “this stuff is a lot touchier and weirder than you’d think” really made me think a lot harder about electronics in general
otherstuffandthings
2024-06-27 16:27:44 +0000 UTCI agree - other than Station to Station episodes, they are my most revisited, and also single-handedly the main reason I decided to finally start playing guitar again after a decade of letting it languish it. Coming up on 18 months of genuinely consistently playing, so I credit those episodes deeply.
EGRESS
2024-06-14 02:28:01 +0000 UTCRecently made a connection between the kettles/teapots (for lack of a better term) that appear in the return, including Phillip Jeffries, and the first spy satellites used by the NRO, namely the Corona. When you see the kettle/teapot machinery alert the fireman in episode 8, we move to the theatre room where a film projector shows us the scenes of the nuclear explosion in black and white from above, as if we’re watching the film from the reel inside the satellite. Won’t go too far into this idea in this comment but it’s unlocked a whole new reading of episode 8 and the show as a whole for me. Id love to hear your thoughts on this.
Gabe Foss
2024-06-13 19:17:53 +0000 UTCMSJ, I want to EXHORT you to see a 1974 British film called PENDA'S FEN, directed by Alan Clarke. It's an episode of the long-running anthology series "Play for Today" which, despite its name, was often a gateway for some of the biggest headfucks ever to air on the BBC or any other national broadcasting venue. Basically it's about an adolescent boy in the English Midlands, the son of a vicar, who simultaneously figures out he's gay and also that the whole of England as it presents itself "in real life" is an elaborate mechanism to elide its pagan roots. There's a scene where he's visiting a playwright who lives in town and the playwright's wife says of him "My husband's what people call a paranoid" The boy interjects "Persecution mania?" Her: "That's right! Trouble is his twisted notions usually prove true." Who does that sound like? I ask you. There's always 1-2 surprisingly acceptable-looking uploads on YouTube at any given time. Hope you give it a whirl. On the whole, Clarke rewards a full career survey, but this is the one that almost seems to be dreaming up Death/Corner long before you entered the scene. https://youtu.be/Ghu0ITA8aSE?si=_nklBJzbyNm7tehN
Rohmer Simpson
2024-06-13 18:32:44 +0000 UTCbuddy i love the amp and guitar eps do not let the haters tell you otherwise i listen to them all in a day about every month
Kamran Husain
2024-06-13 14:31:33 +0000 UTCLillard being of course, one of the aforementioned “people on the outs”, so his death, no matter how strange, is overlooked because he’s just some crank alleged murderer. Who cares about all this conspiracy nonsense.
EGRESS
2024-06-13 09:22:30 +0000 UTCIt is also incredibly important to mention: - I believe it is Sarah’s voice calling out to Laura which she screams in response to. - After she screams and the lights go out on the Palmer house/whatever this reality is, the credits play over a frozen image of Laura whispering to Dale in the Lodge, and then when Lynch and Frost’s production logo plays at the end of the credits, there is no longer an electrical sound that plays over it - something that is a chilling absence considering how notable that sound effect has been at the end of every episode of Twin Peaks.
EGRESS
2024-06-13 09:02:14 +0000 UTCAnother of the Woodsmen gives the same fatal head wound to Matthew Lillard, whose character had a conspiracy website that actually existed – I don't know if you can go to it now, but it was online during the show – that specifically mentioned the JFK assassination as a moment something new and evil permeated our reality
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-13 08:57:39 +0000 UTCThe one schizoid connection I’ve sat on for years, from about when I watched Twin Peaks not long before discovering your show, is the name of the radio station in Part 8 of The Return. The Woodsman, played by an actor notable for being an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, enters the radio station and kills everyone who works there in a way eerily reminiscent of JFK’s head wound. The radio station, which Lynch could have named anything, is KPJK. My mind reads it as Kill President John Kennedy. I may have just been very Pynchon/DC-brained at the time, but I can’t not see some kind of coincidence there. One assassinated President broadcasts a message of evil from the other side, which leads to the consequential death of another. It is happening again.
EGRESS
2024-06-13 08:49:20 +0000 UTCAlong these lines, in the original seasons there are references to “wood spirits” that live in the trees. A theory I saw proffered by Space Cadet (or perhaps a Reddit thread) on YouTube is that the folklore is that evil spirits lived in the woods of Twin Peaks, but due to logging and subsequent use of logs for telephone poles, the connection to electrical wiring allowed the spirits to escape containment and traverse the country and the world via “Electricity”. As Margaret Lanterman (relevant name) says to Laura in FWWM, “ This kind of fire is very hard to put out.” Electrification, and it’s consequences are not easily undone, if at all.
EGRESS
2024-06-13 08:38:17 +0000 UTCI'd kill to hear you talk about Eraserhead at length
r b
2024-06-13 03:05:31 +0000 UTCReally appreciate your work... was thinking of it in this piece https://tropicsofmeta.com/2024/06/12/the-jenner-millennium-goes-bust/
Alex Cummings
2024-06-12 20:07:02 +0000 UTCOh no, I didn't delete anything – Patreon fucks up all the time
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-12 15:38:52 +0000 UTCThanks for this I will look it up. I believe Richard Price had a similar reaction after finding the price equation. He wasnt psychotic but began to find god in the opposite direction of the genetic ego expansding imperative. It's totally fine if so but I was wondering if you deleted my original reply to this about listening to this in episode in a neolithic dolmen. I didn't want to repost that if you had and it could have just been my patreon messing up.
Joel Blackstock
2024-06-12 15:34:24 +0000 UTCYou should look into a book called THE AIR-LOOM GANG, about a minor English diplomat around the time of the French Revolution named James Tilly Matthews who was arguably the first well-documented case of paranoid schizophrenia, and who was driven batshit by the discovery of gas as a state of matter – we forget how recent a discovery that is – so much so that he became convinced that London was controlled by a sewer-dwelling gang who operated The Air-Loom, basically a pipe organ that emitted gases instead of sound and undetectably dictated the behavior of everyone in the city
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-12 11:48:01 +0000 UTCI had an argument the day before I listen to this about how for me world WWII ushered in a new era not just because a lot of people felt like it was some cleaner line between good and evil but because after WWII two we understood how technology worked. You could understand it as a set of electrons jumping around, diodes, copper wire windings, relatively simple wavelengths, etc. afterwards it became a impenetrable and largely disposable product you had to buy as one thing and then throw away but could no longer understand. I was working on something about how psychosis changes over time based on technological development and even though I haven't really found anyone else to agree with those ideas I think that they're pretty uniquely linked to the way we understand politics and technology through metaphor or our inability to understand it as a simple metaphor. The changes in psychosis are completely documented It's just the theory of why. As a relatively new listener I'm shocked about how this podcast will tap into the thing that I've already been feeling in the world and arguing and writing about for a few days or weeks before it comes out.
Joel Blackstock
2024-06-12 11:42:15 +0000 UTCLars von Tier can be excruciating, but The Idiots (1998) is phenomenal.
Billybobby
2024-06-11 19:55:42 +0000 UTCFor the record MSJ I loved the guitar and amplification episodes
Pear Is A Patsy
2024-06-11 13:03:49 +0000 UTChttps://www.instagram.com/reel/C8CkD3Rs4WO/?igsh=MThrcTdkZHhhcmppMw== Michael, I can’t find you on instagram and I got off twitter, so I needed to share this with you here. Fourth reich theory ascendant
Adam
2024-06-11 02:46:22 +0000 UTCloving the radio and electricity discussion so much I keep forgetting the topic is Lynch
Daniel McVeigh
2024-06-11 02:34:51 +0000 UTCI know V. isn't your favorite Pynchon, but I've always felt that it wonderfully handled the motif of the "living inaninmate that appears more alive than life." The electro kilroy at the end was the perfect image of this. "It was a masterful disguise: a metaphor. For Kilroy had sprung to life, in truth, as a band pass filter, thus: Inanimate. But the Grandmaster of Valletta tonight." The band pass filter part in particular is significant: that part of the speaker that only allows through certain frequencies.
M Wigby
2024-06-11 02:14:09 +0000 UTCafter years of listening to this show, this episode finally made me understand the centrality of music recording for your mythic constellation; the transformation of the actual into an increasingly complex abstraction which then becomes more dominant in structuring perception than the real thing.
M Wigby
2024-06-11 02:08:35 +0000 UTCFantastic episode, been waiting for something like this- thank you
A.
2024-06-11 01:40:40 +0000 UTC"shall i project a world" no choice left there, Oedipa
M Wigby
2024-06-10 23:10:36 +0000 UTCthey paved paradise, etc
M Wigby
2024-06-10 22:24:53 +0000 UTCIn the words of one of history's worst bands: help is on the way. Help is on the way.
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-10 22:07:26 +0000 UTCI fucking NEED more JFK/Lynch connections.
Adrian
2024-06-10 21:31:51 +0000 UTCi wonder if there is something to it that the "good" entity is the Fireman (formerly called the giant) and the evil entities being lumberjacks, fire being the first "energy technology" and lumberjacks partly being the mass industrialisation to feed the fire.
Hothead
2024-06-09 09:22:37 +0000 UTCI can’t speak on the merits of “TM” specifically, but I believe in meditation, and I also find it worthy of investigation when so many unique minds dedicate a portion (or times the entirety) of their lives to a unique and ancient practice. ***Not to mention Lynch’s multi-verse is littered with esoterica imagery that (to the initiated) may be interpreted as part of the “meditation tapestry”. I guess what im attempting to say is, in order ro better understand Lynch and his work, one should look seriously at the TM angle— after all Lynch does…
MW
2024-06-09 01:48:32 +0000 UTCI saw Lynch at a TM event in Seattle a few years ago. I did feel like the TM structure was a scam but Lynch just seems to have been in the right place at the right time for him to afford the classes and have it impact his life. He really only emphasized it as a way to clearly access his subconscious "big" thoughts which seems to be the significant way it affects his work. And probably why his dream stuff feels so realistic. I think it's also where his sound design comes from at least conceptually. When I started trying to meditate I immediately noticed the constant hum all around of of electrical systems unless you go out of your way to isolate yourself from them. And it's just this constant feed of sensory information that we create subconscious structures in order to help us ignore them. So Lynch turns up the volume or otherwise distorts them.
Cooper Turberville
2024-06-09 01:18:31 +0000 UTCHaha! Great story, much appreciated. For what its worth meditation is real. Yes anecdotal, im well aware, but based on my experience meditation is as real as a psychological break. Similar to the psychedelic experience, meditation can take you through the same places. I’ve never personally met anyone who traveled to the top, but if lower realms seem to match each other based on first hand experience, should we not trust the texts and messages of those who have made it to “seeing the house builder”?
MW
2024-06-08 21:21:40 +0000 UTCHonestly I do not know, because I don't know a) if TM is real, and b) what it does if it's real. I can, however, tell you that in 2007, via an improbable series of Myspace connections back when Myspace was like Soundcloud, I got invited to a TM retreat in Scotland that was to be co-led by David Lynch and Donovan – like "Hurdy Gurdy Man" Donovan, "Mellow Yellow" Donovan, although he actually made some great & totally neglected records – but I didn't have the money to go. Celebrity religion being what it is, I often wonder if that retreat ever happened (I think it was supposed to be on the grounds of a castle?), and what universe I'd be in now if David Lynch taught me transcendental meditation when I was 19. I feel pretty sure that I would've frustrated the living shit out of him.
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-08 20:19:18 +0000 UTCSee, this is the deal. Right here. The more layered tekhnê gets, and the more that once-accessible matters are miniaturized and automated into something nobody can actually see or think about (basic tube amplifier circuit –> op amp IC, for example), we enter the fucked realm of total demiurgic detachment from our own world, and of obsession with the abstract and arbitrary economic and social "value" of things that used to be real. And all this shit happened *so fucking fast* that we've never even begun to think about it. The human mind since the end of World War II has been dispossessed and exiled into new extremes of alienation every goddamn day, we all think it's normal now, we're economically coerced into treating it as normal even if we know it isn't, and we are collectively and unitarily – in the most literal sense possible – out of our goddamn minds. Our epitaph will be "Them? They Don't Live Here Anymore."
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-08 20:15:18 +0000 UTCIdk if you're comfortable with this option but I share my patron w/ one of my friends just like I share most subscriptions w/ friends and family. I have like 10 ppl on my Amazon and I use my sisters Spotify and Hulu, etc.
Bored at Work
2024-06-08 18:44:32 +0000 UTCHad a few more thoughts on electricity in Lynch, specifically how it seems to manifest in the sonic design of his films. Technology in his films often present an ominous throbbing crackling drone that straddles the digegetic/non-diagetic. There’s a lot around things like grain silos in The Straight Story, for example. Like you illustrate about his use of radio, Lynch seems tapped in to the demonic ambient siren song of techne, the music of the ghost in the machine cum lady in a radiator.
Heath Iverson
2024-06-08 18:38:51 +0000 UTCA nod to the first usage of the term 'deliquescence' I have ever heard of outside of mycology, specifically the study of coprinoid fungi. Coincidentally, the "ink" formed by these mushrooms' autodigestion (aka deliquescence) made them useful to the third reich. Hitler is said to have used it in signing high-ranking documents. Only by examining the signature under a microscope to check for the presence of coprinoid spores could the document's authenticity be verified.
myxomop
2024-06-08 06:05:42 +0000 UTCThere are so many layers of abstraction within the electric, which bring their own echeloned confusions. I work in software engineering, and a lot of the programming that happens these days is done by programmers who don't really understand how assembly works or what the code they write actually does. It's why modern software is slow as shit, buggy, and a multitude of security defects keep getting discovered every day with no end in sight.
Bombs Over Rome
2024-06-08 03:51:26 +0000 UTCAlso a vote for unlocking the DL stuff, and I wish Patreon would let you gift subscriptions because I have some friends who are not so well off financially. I really want them to get some Death Corner and even more, talk about it w them.
Enk
2024-06-07 23:17:48 +0000 UTCПервый—Очень Хорошо! Second, and maybe im Skippin ahead here, but curious to hear your interpretation/thoughts on the role transcendental meditation plays in the Lynchoshpere. Like, what does it all mean man?
MW
2024-06-07 23:16:28 +0000 UTCI swear a long time ago in an interview DL was asked what RR was about and he answered (more or less) "oh it's about a little guy that runs on 120V current and had crazy hair"
Enk
2024-06-07 22:56:11 +0000 UTCI would also like to share this episode with my friends
John Waaben
2024-06-07 21:51:15 +0000 UTCReally excited to see where this series goes- this is definitely an episode I’m gonna come back to again and again to take notes on like “Terrorism as Public Art”. I’ve met so many guys (filmbro archetype) who love Lynch but can’t begin to explain why they do or what the hell he’s trying to say in his movies.
John Waaben
2024-06-07 21:48:23 +0000 UTCHey Michael, great episode. Thank you for it. I was wondering if you have ever engaged with the work of Friedrich Kittler, the German literary scholar and media theorist. I've long sensed resonances between your thought and his, although I have never heard you mention him. For example, Kittler engages with Pynchon (see, e.g., his article "Pynchon and Electro-Mysticism" [2008] https://pynchonnotes.openlibhums.org/article/id/2700/). This essay gets into gramophones and sound reproduction, as well as the interface between the mechanical and the electrical, right away. His media theory extends some of the basic contributions of McLuhan, who you have regularly referenced. In this episode, you mention that one reason that you were inspired to explore amplifier electronics was to better understand electricity—because electricity mediates between everyday, concrete experiences and commonsense intuition, and a realm of world-shaping technicity that is opaque to the average person. (Pardon my rephrasing of your words from recollection. Also—side note—FWIW, as a music scholar, I loved your episodes on guitar amplifiers.) Kittler, in what seems to me to be a resonant way, studied programming languages, as well as their evolution. Consider this summary of an aspect of his media theory from Wikipedia: '[Kittler] sees in writing literature, in writing programmes and in burning structures into silicon chips a complete continuum: "As we know and simply do not say, no human being writes anymore. [...] Today, human writing runs through inscriptions burnt into silicon by electronic lithography [...]. The last historic act of writing may thus have been in the late seventies when a team of Intel engineers [plotted] the hardware architecture of their first integrated microprocessor."' Kittler draws connections between technology, media, and cosmology in his book "Discourse Networks 1800/1900." He also makes frequent reference to the origins of magnetic tapes and films, among other technologies, in or connection with Nazi Germany in his works. The volume of Kittler's essays called "Gramophone, Film, Typewriter" is especially relevant, I think. If you, or anyone else reading this comment, hasn't read the Gramophone essay, in particular, I would highly recommend it. It discusses, among other things, a piece of writing by Rilke, where Rilke muses the possibility of understanding the mind by dragging a gramophone needle over the suture of a human skull. If you have engaged with Kittler, I'd be very curious to know what you think. Thank you again for the episode! This is my first comment to you; I've been a huge fan of your work since I found out about your work a bit over a year ago. Best wishes to you and yours.
rwncd
2024-06-07 20:55:29 +0000 UTCI think Lynch calls the white lodge/opera house place "The Fireman's" https://youtu.be/-AHUEON7Fb8?t=85
Hothead
2024-06-07 17:18:15 +0000 UTCGreat ep, looking forward to this series. An aside, but would you ever consider doing something on electronic music, its history, and how it fits into all of this? I think I remember you mentioning at one point that electronic music came to be as an accidental consequence of the MIC/ atomic bomb research. Lot 49 also touches on this a bit with the Yoyodyne employees in the bar after work. Would be interested to know your thoughts on synthesizers and shaping sound through purely electronic means as an art form, as opposed to music created acoustically/mechanically
Nathan Voelker
2024-06-07 16:59:02 +0000 UTCI liked the guitar episodes though
big microbe
2024-06-07 16:51:07 +0000 UTCWorth taking a look at the screenplay for David Lynch's unproduced film Ronnie Rocket. Reading parts and hearing what other David Lynch fan's took from it unlocked a of Lynch's 'electrical' themes for me. Fans have done some interesting work connecting Ronnie Rocket's electrical themes back to his other works. "A closer look at some of the buildings reveals a thirties style architecture, although quite plain and very massive. Office buildings with heavy industrial factories. A smoke stack pours tons of heavy black smoke slowly and silently into the dark night sky. Hundreds of heavy electrical wires crisscross through the sky and electricity hums come from giant boxes on the poles. The headlights and then a car--it moves slowly below, down a street then turns out of sight. An old neon sign over a diner says "City Diner." A large old hospital and the, front steps. Inside a nurse goes by wheeling a patient on a rolling bed. The corridor is now empty. Moving slowing through the empty corridor. An open steel door."
Paul
2024-06-07 16:37:13 +0000 UTCsomehow I managed to get a hold of ABSURD ENCOUNTER WITH FEAR, which I assume he would have made at the Pennsylvania Fine Arts Academy, the same year (1967) as SIX FIGURES GETTING SICK and some others. It's on YouTube in extremely poor quality but if you watch it, it'll be completely obvious "Oh .... right - he was never not David Lynch." (The man, incidentally, is played by legendary production designer Jack Fisk, semi-secretly one of the guys most responsible for the way some of the best American films post-1968 look the way they do.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDqN9-VD9dM Time was, being able to see ERASERHEAD, let alone his student films, was a real hipster tell, like they were grease-stained chapbooks, churned out by black market printing presses and passed around among dissidents. I'm glad those days are mostly behind us, that there are significantly fewer ways someone can be a dick by lording over someone else that THEY AND A SELECT FEW had access to Some Really Rare Shit. (And no, I'm not referring to Netflix and other streamers, who, at best, are working hard to make their own new release movies as difficult to find as possible.)
Rohmer Simpson
2024-06-07 15:57:16 +0000 UTCAnother vote for unlocking the Lynch - I'm sure my friend would love to hear these
breakdownshakedown
2024-06-07 15:51:42 +0000 UTCTrue, effectively that is linearly reversing the envelope.
glenn mohre
2024-06-07 14:49:09 +0000 UTCMakes me think about how threats by the U.S., Israel, and their allies to turn enemy states into "parking lots" and promises by the U.S., Israel, and their allies to turn these same enemy states into utopian consumer paradises are expressions of the same underlying impulse: to extinguish any country or any people that operates even slightly outside the logic of the World, by any means necessary. To turn the entire Earth into a "parking lot."
Zach
2024-06-07 14:49:05 +0000 UTCI'm talking about the application of reverb to the reversed signal, so there's hardly any reverb actuated until the syllable's initial attack (now its final cutoff cos it's reversed), and if you reverse the backwards signal with "normal" reverb, you get a reverb that leads up to the attack of the syllable instead of trailing after it. I can't remember which episode was about Henry Kissinger dying, but when I did the voice of the angel at the beginning, that's how I engineered it: record voice normally >> reverse that recording >> apply normal reverb to the reversed voice >> flip the whole thing backward again = voice, now forward again, with reverb building up to each syllable instead of trailing after it. You can do the same thing with a tape echo to really good effect too.
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-07 14:45:10 +0000 UTCThe bad Vibes are some of his best and funniest names. Scarsdale? Cragmont? Wilshire? They sound like arch WASPs and boulevards in Beverly Hills. Then there’s Edwarda Beef Vibes. Good shit, Tom.
Heath Iverson
2024-06-07 14:40:45 +0000 UTCMy problem is I need a bigger amp space because it’s so fucking loud it’s hard for me to hear the difference between speakers “in the room”. Also I want more space so I don’t need to put away the tube amps and pedalboards in between playing (honestly this was my main reason behind getting the now discontinued boss katana go) and can have a dedicated recording desk. Also not that I have room or money for it (trying to hold off until bonus season), but feel free to DM me with anything you’re trying to get rid of that might be interesting. I love learning about gear even if it’s stuff I’ll never buy (like a Dumble or Two Rock). I know my mesa takes both el34 (or is it 84s)? and 6L6s but I was thinking something like a Bogner or more high end amps where you can stick a KT88 in would be nice. Anyways I don’t envy the guitar YouTubers. I look at the cost of the production stuff they have and it’s like at least another 10-12 grand in cameras and lighting and video stuff to do it professionally. And as cool as the wall of amps is, almost none of these guys are married or have kids (Ola is the only one I know; Rabea Massad seems normal enough though) or appear to have like regular jobs or something. I hate to sound like an asshole but I won’t listen to anyone who doesn’t mic a cab (or run DI through an impulse response). Nothing is lamer in this day and age than phone/camcorder video of some dude in a room using the phone/camcorder built in mic as the main audio. Unless it’s so loud like the video of Pete Thorne blasting a plexi on 10 and then it’s so loud mic placement is kinda moot. I forgot where I was going except back to the licensing agreement that your comment provided a much appreciated distraction from.
NYCM&AHole
2024-06-07 14:36:54 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Solid pacing, love the inversion of form to create a pseudo coupling. Couple of notes/qs: - Tristero -> Trio of Lumberjacks. You implied this through the CIA connection but were never explicit - It is my understanding that the nerve net/open circuit tree was a stand in for the man from another place. Exploring his character might expand this analysis. - When describing the interference of the mantle between humanity and the Earth, you didn't use the term "grounding" which seems right on with using the electrical grid as a crux. - Reverse echo / backwards talking technique: I figured out a pretty good approx of his backwards talking approach using a small sampler. Cut the word(s) into syllables. write them backwards. record these backwards syllables. reverse the recordings and stitch them together. Voila! I hadn't tried adding some reverb in the pre-reversal step. I'll give that a shot. - Reverse reverb: This term is abuses out the wazoo. sometimes it refers to a linear reversal of the waveform, but it can also refer to using the positive edge of the input envelope to shut down the reverb, causing it to prolferate during decay. The TC Electronic NovaReverb does this, as does the SPX-90, popularized by Kevin Shields.
glenn mohre
2024-06-07 14:35:44 +0000 UTCThis isn't to detract from or modify anything you describe re: the invocations of the JFK assassination in TP:TR - but someone who's a little closer to these things explained to me that Mark Frost is the more literal-history-minded of the duo; to any degree that one can parse who contributed what to the series (specifically TR), Frost's imagination would somehow veer towards both the prosaic/pulpy AND speculative-historiography... not to disparage the guy but, say, take all the historical/parapolitical events and phenomena that you cover on your show and instead of you talking about it it's a James Patterson airport novel. Just glancing at the stuff Frost gets up to when not collaborating with Lynch - foremost among them the "Secret History of Twin Peaks" book he put out in 2016, a year before TP:TR - leads me to think that, had Lynch never been involved *at all* in TWIN PEAKS, you end up with, maybe, one season of a quirky small town mystery/local color/pastoral program, upon which the "fringe" (for lack of a better word) story elements don't integrate nearly as well because there's no Lynch to imagine it all as inhabiting the same -sphere.
Rohmer Simpson
2024-06-07 14:32:29 +0000 UTCUnderrated insult: Scarsdale has such atrocious vibes that you'd name a villain "Scarsdale Vibe"
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-07 14:26:51 +0000 UTCI don't think they're that different, it's just that Pynchon spends more time on the good manifestations. But for Byron, there's still the Bulb Cartel trying to kill him, and he still becomes a jaded lonely old freak who "will find himself, poor perverse bulb, enjoying it," and for every Skip, there are a thousand Scarsdale Vibes
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-07 14:25:44 +0000 UTCTo be honest I haven't watched him much because the clickbait is so irritating, so maybe he's good on other stuff, but lemme tell you – I'm selling a whole gang of stuff right now & was running through a number of amps to make sure I'm selling the right ones. A few of them can take multiple tube types (which is a flawed concept in itself, for reasons I can explain at horrible length if you want), and I ran 4 kinds of EL34s and 2 kinds of 6L6s thru each, and I can tell which is which without looking. Even within the same brand, JJ EL34s, E34Ls, and EL34IIs are different enough that I can't imagine not noticing the change.
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-07 14:20:21 +0000 UTCOn electricity, how does Lynch’s satanic electricity stack up against Pynchon’s conception of electricity a la Byron the Bulb and Skip the ball lightning?
Heath Iverson
2024-06-07 14:19:23 +0000 UTCThanks for getting at the black boxing of modern technology and the foreclosure of human meaning and freedom. I’m gonna drop the quote from Arendt here because you’re thinking right along with her: “The trouble concerns the fact that the ‘truths’ of the modern scientific world view, though they can be demonstrated in mathematical formulas and proved technologically, will no longer lend themselves to normal expression in speech and thought. […] It could be that we, who are earth-bound creatures and have begun to act as though we were dwellers of the universe, will be forever unable to understand, that is, think and speak about the things we are nevertheless able to do. It would be a though our brain, which constitutes the physical material condition of our thoughts, were unable to follow what we do, so that from now on we would indeed need artificial machines to do our thinking and speaking. If it should turn out to be true that knowledge (in the modern sense of know-how) and thought have parted company for good, then we would indeed become the helpless slaves, not so much of our machines as of our know-how, thoughtless creatures at the mercy of every gadget which is technically possible, no matter how murderous it is.” That’s here on earth, but “In Heaven, everything is fine.”
Heath Iverson
2024-06-07 14:17:07 +0000 UTCLol sounds like a comment for butthurt of the week - but yeah the clickbait shit is annoying but I do like a lot do his “how to” recording engineering stuff. You gotta go easy on him; he’s (A) Canadian and (B) he went to school for recording music. But you know he needs the clicks because he doesn’t have stuff to sell like Ola Englund (yes I admit I want a solar X in the bloodspatter finish). And yes I know he has some stuff but it’s not the same level of “a guitar” and the chug pedal. And Ola writes music too. I just take what I can from the guitar YouTube section and enjoy it because otherwise I’m doing lawyer shit.
NYCM&AHole
2024-06-07 13:41:25 +0000 UTCI went through a phase watching videos of people repair circuit board electronics, replacing chips and doing drag soldering, and it’s like magic to some dumb person like me.
NYCM&AHole
2024-06-07 13:28:43 +0000 UTCI just cannot stand that dude's little bait thumbnails where he's holding like a lead pipe and it says WHAT EVERY GUITARIST DOES WRONG! and then there's a face pic of him looking like a 51-year-old who's been trapped at Fat Camp since 1989 because the counselors can't physically prevent him from breaking into the walk-in freezer
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-07 13:26:11 +0000 UTCSorry I got stuck on the your life is in a locked room part of the episode with Matt McConaughey’s voice rattling around my brain.
NYCM&AHole
2024-06-07 13:20:22 +0000 UTCGlenn Fricker has been wrong about every single thing I've ever heard him say
Michael S. Judge
2024-06-07 13:04:07 +0000 UTCGlenn Fricker would beg to differ that changing tubes changes the sound (as recorded)
NYCM&AHole
2024-06-07 13:01:06 +0000 UTCI support unlocking these, I have a Lynch buff friend who I think would get a kick out of them.
Ana McKenna
2024-06-07 11:55:03 +0000 UTCTwo coats! Guaranteed
Ana McKenna
2024-06-07 10:46:48 +0000 UTCNo link to buy golden shovels?
Joey Fazz
2024-06-07 10:28:34 +0000 UTCOn The Air
EGRESS
2024-06-07 09:28:01 +0000 UTCMan, what the fuck. I’ve just returned to The Return and Lynch again on a whim. There is something in the air. We’re all drinking it.
EGRESS
2024-06-07 09:27:32 +0000 UTCWe're all wrapped in plastic now.
Taylor Leibel
2024-06-07 09:22:47 +0000 UTC
